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I Think the Met’s $95M van Gogh Masterpiece Is a Fake
New York Post ^
| November 6, 2016
| Bill Sanderson
Posted on 11/06/2016 9:01:17 AM PST by nickcarraway
Vincent van Gogh purportedly regarded the pastoral scene of wheat, cypress trees and mountains as one of his best landscapes but a journalist insists the Metropolitan Museum of Arts $95 million masterpiece is a fake.
James Grundvigs new book, Breaking van Gogh, claims the painting titled Wheat Field with Cypresses was really made in the late 1800s by Emile Schuffenecker, a third-level impressionist painter and suspected forger.
Look carefully at the canvas in Gallery 822 on the Mets second floor, and you can see some of the signs of a forgery, Grundvig says.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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To: nickcarraway
After the Nazis plundered the art in Europe, I wouldn’t doubt that many of the paintings in museums recovered are fakes and the originals in private collections.
To: nickcarraway
Interesting, but wrong.
The idea that you can assign a precise methodology and technique to a personality as “fluid” as Van Gogh is demanding a bit much.
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posted on
11/06/2016 9:05:59 AM PST
by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
To: nickcarraway
It’s in my bedroom. I took down the one of Farrah Fawcett
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posted on
11/06/2016 9:07:10 AM PST
by
dp0622
(IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/06/2016 9:07:40 AM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
To: nickcarraway
Libtards duped out of $95M bump? LMAO BUMP!
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posted on
11/06/2016 9:08:56 AM PST
by
houeto
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/06/2016 9:10:24 AM PST
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
To: nickcarraway
I can relate. I bought what I thought was an original Rembrandt at a yard sale for $25,000. Years later my little nephew noticed that it was really a paint-by-numbers project.
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posted on
11/06/2016 9:20:42 AM PST
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: All
Wheat-Field-with-Cypresses
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posted on
11/06/2016 9:25:57 AM PST
by
Liz
(Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
To: nickcarraway
I agree. Looks like a fake. In addition to the arguments cited, the patterns in the sky are all wrong.
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posted on
11/06/2016 9:28:32 AM PST
by
Liberty Ship
("Lord, make me fast and accurate.")
To: All
In his memoir, director Thomas Hoving talked about buying for the Met the sixth-century BC Greek vase, the Euphronios Krater in 1972. It looked a million dollars, and cost it. He called it the "hot pot" and said it had probably been smuggled out of Italy. It had been and, in 2006, the Met ate humble pie and returned it.
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posted on
11/06/2016 9:33:44 AM PST
by
Liz
(Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
To: Liz
I would be somewhat surprised if that cerulean blue or ultramarin blue could remain so bright and chromatic after almost 125 years. I would expect more pigment to have dried up or been absorbed into the gesso base.
It’s possible that this began as Van Gogh piece that was completed after he died in 1890 and brother Theo died the year after that. With both gone, there was no one to stop Theo’s widow from finding and hiring someone to complete certain projects.
To: Liz
That used to be on our fridge when I was a kid. I thought my sister painted it.
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posted on
11/06/2016 9:37:50 AM PST
by
BykrBayb
(Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. PTL ~ Þ)
To: Leaning Right
The dogs playing poker should’ve been the giveaway clue.
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posted on
11/06/2016 9:40:12 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Anthony Weiner's use of the P-word has been kept out of the media, why the double standard?)
To: All
If they can’t tell the difference ...
then what does it matter!
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posted on
11/06/2016 9:41:00 AM PST
by
Mr Radical
(In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
To: Liz
Btw, my brother added the Ethiopian baby under the green blanket, and I added the alien baby popping out of the pineapple.
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posted on
11/06/2016 9:46:07 AM PST
by
BykrBayb
(Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. PTL ~ Þ)
To: nickcarraway
I've got a portrait of Elvis Presley on stretched velvet that was painted by Tintoretto. I'll sell it to the Met for a million in cash.
But not a dime less ...
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posted on
11/06/2016 9:50:34 AM PST
by
IronJack
To: dp0622
you took down your Farah Fawcett picture?
may I have it?
(is she nekked?)
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posted on
11/06/2016 9:59:13 AM PST
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
To: faithhopecharity
Does her hair still spell out “S-E-X”?
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posted on
11/06/2016 9:59:54 AM PST
by
dfwgator
I don't know who painted the mommy pineapple alien to the left of my baby pineapple alien. At the time, I thought I did pretty good, and couldn't understand why my sister got mad. Now I see my alien baby wasn't as good as my brother's Ethiopian baby. Oh well. Glad to see it still fetched a good price.
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posted on
11/06/2016 10:00:33 AM PST
by
BykrBayb
(Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. PTL ~ Þ)
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